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Charles Gale

Dec 2022: The 2022 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics awarded to Charles Gale

Charles Gale has won the 2022 CAP Lifetime Achievement in Physics (...)»
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Dec 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Laurent Jutras-Dubé

Laurent Jutras-Dubé has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Geometric models of embryonic pattern formation and of genetic oscillator synchronization). (...)»
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Dec 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Guillermo Gambini

Guillermo Gambini has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Constraints on energy scales from dark matter decay in a gauges B - L model). (...)»
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Dec 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Michael Pagano

Michael Pagano has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Connecting Theory to Observations in 21cm Cosmology: Development of Theoretical Tools and Mitigation of Systematics). (...)»
Alice Curtin

Nov 2022: Congratulations to Alice Curtin

PhD candidate Alice Curtin has been awarded an NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. (...)»
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Nov 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Shreya Saha

Shreya Saha has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Search for a new light particle produced in association with a top quark pair with the ATLAS Detector). (...)»
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Oct 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Dominique Matte

Dominique Matte has successfully defended his PhD thesis ( Ultrafast electron cold field emission from a tungsten nanotip by single cycle THz pulse). (...)»
The CHIME telescope

Oct 2022: Congratulations to the CHIME team

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) team has won NSERC's 2022 Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering (...)»
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Oct 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Rafael Fuentes

Rafael Fuentes has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Hydrodynamics of convection with composition gradients: Salty water and Jupiter). (...)»
David Cooke

Oct 2022: David Cooke wins the 2022 Wares Science Innovation Prospectors Fund

Congratulations to David Cooke for winnig the 2022 Wares Science Innovation Prospectors Fund for his project “Single-shot electron microscopy using light-driven metal nanotips”. (...)»
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Oct 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Churchill

Jessica Churchill has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Electromagnetic radiation from various stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions). (...)»
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Oct 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Hope Boyce

Hope Boyce has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Observational probes of supermassive black hole environments: from the event horizon to the sphere of influence). (...)»
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Oct 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Heffernan

Matthew Heffernan has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Quantification of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with statistical learning). (...)»
Victoria Kaspi

Sep 2022: Congratulation to Victoria Kaspi

Victoria Kaspi has been awarded the 2022 Albert Einstein World Award of Science by the World Cultural Council (...)»
Daryl Haggard

Sep 2022: Daryl Haggard wins the 2022 RSC's Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics

Daryl Haggard has been awarded the 2022 Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics by the Royal Society of Canada (...)»
Nicolas Cowan

Sep 2022: Nicolas Cowan elected member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to Nicolas Cowan, who has been elected a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada (...)»
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Sep 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Anh-Khoi Trinh

Anh-Khoi Trinh has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Bootstrapping strongly coupled conformal field theories). (...)»
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Aug 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Vincent Dumont

Vincent Dumont has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Quantum noise and mechanical membranes in microcavities). (...)»
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Jul 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Bryce Cyr

Bryce Cyr has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Cosmological implications of topological defects). (...)»
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Jul 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Andrzej Pokraka

Andrzej Pokraka has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Intersection theory and Feynman integrals). (...)»
Victoria Kaspi, Robert Brandenberger and Hong Guo

Jul 2022: Congratulations to Victoria, Robert and Hong

Victoria Kaspi, Robert Brandenberger and Hong Guo have been ranked among Canada's Top Physics Scientists by Research.com. (...)»
Simon Caron-Huot

Jul 2022: Simon Caron-Huot awarded the 2021/22 John David Jackson Award

Simon Caron-Huot has won the Department of Physics John David Jackson Award for Excellence in Teaching (...)»
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Jun 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Dang

Lisa Dang has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Characterizing evolving exoplanets and their atmosphere with the Spitzer Space Telescope and beyond). (...)»
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Jun 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Levitan

Benjamin Levitan has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Second-order topological insulators under strong magnetic fields). (...)»
Simon Caron-Huot

May 2022: Congratulations to Simon Caron-Huot

Simon Caron-Huot has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in Physics with tenure (...)»
Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia

Apr 2022: Congratulations to Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia

Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia has received the McGill's 2022 Award for Equity and Community Building, (...)»
Nikolas Provatas

Apr 2022: Congratulations to Nik Provatas

Nikolas Provatas has won one of the 2022 SALTICE Best Practices & Pedagogical Innovators Awards. (...)»
Brigitte Vachon

Apr 2022: Brigitte Vachon appointed James McGill Professor

Brigitte Vachon has been appointed James McGill Professor. (...)»
Minya Bai

Mar 2022: Congratulations to Minya Bai

Minya Bai has been awarded a 2022 Research Scholarship from the Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics. (...)»
Eve Lee

Feb 2022: Eve Lee awarded the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy

Eve Lee has been awarded the American Astronomical Society’s 2022 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy (...)»
McGill Physics

Feb 2022: Inaugural BIPOC Physics Research Awards

McGill's Department of Physics announces the launch of the undergraduate BIPOC Physics Research Awards, (...)»
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Jan 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Raphaël Prentki

Raphaël Prentki has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Theory and Simulation of Novel Low-Power Nanotransistors). (...)»
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Jan 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Ziwei Wang

Ziwei Wang has successfully defended his PhD thesis (A New realization of the ekyprotic scenario). (...)»
James Webb Space Telecope and Lisa Dang

Dec 2021: The James Webb Space Telecope and Lisa Dang

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Dec 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Auriane Canesse

Auriane Canesse has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Study of Wγγ tri-boson production in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector). (...)»
Sangyong Jeon

Dec 2021: The 2021 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal awarded to Sangyong Jeon

Sangyong Jeon has won the 2021 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal (...)»
Robert Brandenberger

Dec 2021: The 2021 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics awarded to Robert Brandenberger

Robert Brandenberger has won the 2021 CAP Lifetime Achievement in Physics (...)»
Simon Caron-Huot

Dec 2021: The 2021 CAP Herzberg Medal awarded to Simon Caron-Huot

Simon Caron-Huot has won the 2021 CAP Herzberg Medal (...)»
Charles Gale

Dec 2021: Charles Gale has been named Associate Editor of Physical Review C

Charles Gale has been named Associate Editor of Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics). (...)»
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Nov 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Pragya Chawla

Pragya Chawla has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Characterizing the fast radio burst population with the CHIME telescope). (...)»
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Nov 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Jimmy Chieh-Ting Hsu

Jimmy Chieh-Ting Hsu has successfully defended his PhD thesis (New understanding of low parameters microtubule model with numerical parameter space compression). (...)»
The CHIME telescope

Nov 2021: Congratulations to the CHIME/FRB team

The CHIME fast radio bursts (CHIME/FRB) team has been awarded the 2022 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. (...)»
Victoria Kaspi

Nov 2021: Victoria Kaspi among the most cited researchers

Victoria Kaspi has been included in Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers 2021 (...)»
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Nov 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Sigtryggur Hauksson

Sigtryggur Hauksson has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Momentum broadening and collinear radiation in a non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma). (...)»
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Nov 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Laurent René de Cotret

Laurent René de Cotret has successfully defended his PhD thesis (From carrier cooling to polaron formation: Ultrafast phonon dynamics across the Brillouin zone). (...)»
Saverio Biunno

Nov 2021: Saverio Biunno celebrates 50 years at McGill

Saverio Biunno, Undergraduate Physics Lab supervisor, has been at McGill for 50 years. (...)»
Adrian Liu

Nov 2021: Adrian Liu awarded Wares Science Innovation Prospectors Fund

Congratulations to Adrian Liu who has been awarded a one-year Wares Science Innovation Prospectors Fund grant (...)»
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Oct 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Simon Sehayek

Simon Sehayek has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Sifting molecular noise with image correlation methods to measure transport and photophysical dynamics). (...)»
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Oct 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Logan Montgomery

Logan Montgomery has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Spectral measurements and carcinogenic effects modeling of secondary neutrons in radiation therapy). (...)»
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Sep 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Émilie Parent

Émilie Parent has successfully defended her PhD thesis (Discovery and study of radio pulsars and fast transients with the Arecibo and Green Bank telescopes). (...)»
Qiu Shi Wang

Sep 2021: Qiu Shi Wang wins the 2nd prize in the 2021 CAP University Prize Exam

Qiu Shi Wang, a McGill Physics undergraduate student, wins the 2nd prize in this year's Canadian Association of Physicists University Prize Ecam (...)»
Daryl Haggard

Sep 2021: Dary Haggard elected member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to Daryl Haggard, who has been elected a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada (...)»
Mattias Lazda

Aug 2021: Mattias Lazda wins the 2nd prize in the Exploring Innovation in Appalachia Symposium

Mattias Lazda, a McGill Physics undergraduate student working in Victoria Kaspi's group, wins the 2nd prize in the inaugural Exploring Innovation in Appalachia: an Undergraduate Research Symposium, in the Astronomy/Physics/Math category, (...)»
Emma Klemets

Aug 2021: Emma Klemets was won the 2nd Grand Prize for best presentation at CASST 2021

Congratulations to Emma Klemets, a CINP summer student in Thomes Brunner's lab, who has won the 2nd Grand Prize in the 2021 Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk competition (...)»
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Jul 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Ioannis Tsiares

Ioannis Tsiares has successfully defended his PhD thesis (On some universal results in two dimensional conformal field theories). (...)»
Paul François

Jul 2021: Paul François awarded the 2020/21 John David Jackson Award

Paul François has won the Department of Physics John David Jackson Award for Excellence in Teaching (...)»
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Jun 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Dylan Keating

Dylan Keating has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Comparative exoplanetology using thermal phase curves and Bayesian hierarchical modelling). (...)»
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Jun 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Taylor Bell

Taylor Bell has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Characterizing ultra-hot jupiters through theoretical modelling and precise observations). (...)»
McGill Physics

Jun 2021: 2020 Department Climate Survey

The results of the 2020 Department Climate Survey have been released. You'll find the executive summary here (...)»
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Jun 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Lenin Del Rio Amador

Lenin Del Rio Amador has successfully defended his PhD thesis (The stochastic seasonal to interannual prediction system: exploiting the atmosphere's memory for long-term forecasts). (...)»
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Jun 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Albert Kamanzi

Albert Kamanzi has successfully defended his PhD thesis (Single-Molecule Microscopy of Polymers and Nanoparticles in Confinement with Applications to Genetic Medicines and Vaccines). (...)»
Victoria Kaspi

Jun 2021: Victoria Kaspi shares this year's Shaw Prize in Astronomy

Victoria Kaspi and Chryssa Kouveliotou have been jointy awarded this year's Shaw Prize in Astronomy (...)»

May 2021: Katie Savard wins Science Moyse Travelling Scholarship

Katie Savard, graduating student in Physics, has been awarded this year's Science Moyse Travelling Scholarship. (...)»

May 2021: Jessica Churchill wins inaugural CINP's Graduate Fellowship

Jessica Churchill has won the Canadian Instute of Nuclear Physics inaugural Graduate Fellowship (...)»

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